I just downloaded Limewire today and I am impressed. It seems the best peer-to-peer since Napster. But the upgrade to the pro nag is getting on my nerves. Does it just go on forever?

I take back this criticism because Limewire is so great beyond what I expected that a nag is small price to pay for this virtually ad-free software! I am getting the PRO for sure. Emailing my friends like crazy about this software! I'm downloading songs faster than I can process, listen to and organize them.

It seems there are a lot of people that have a problem with the nag screen at startup (upgrade to PRO, yes, why, later). There also seem to be no posts describing how the nag screen could be removed (aside from actually upgrading). I also read that even the PRO starts to nag at you eventually, asking to buy a newer version, so you can never permanently get rid of the nagging. These CAN be removed, and I would appreciate any help.

I'm using version 4.12.11. If you rename LimeWire.jar to LimeWire.zip, and open it up in winzip or another file compression utility, go to \com\limegroup\gnutella\gui, you will find the file that I think is responsible for the popup nag - UpgradeWindow.class. My problem is, that I cannot change anything within the zip/jar file. After I re-compress, limewire refuses to run. To test, I uncompressed all files, did not change anything and recompressed them back into .zip, renamed to limewire.jar - limewire refuses to run. I've even used jar.exe and created a self-manifesting limewire.jar (using switch m and no compression). The resulting .jar is slightly different in size from the original, and again, limewire refuses to run. I have no experience with Java. Can someone who does have the experience tell me how to re-compress the .class files into a working limewire.jar file? Or, to take it further, how can UpgradeWindow.class be hacked to get rid of the annoying nag screen? Also, please let me know if I'm totally on the wrong track. I will appreciate any contribution.

Don`t see the problem with the nag screen myself. It asks you the question once at startup of the program then leaves you alone to get on with what you are doing once you have made your choice. We should all remember that there is a development team behind every program like this who must put in a great deal of time and effort to provide us with a product like LW, which I have found to work excellently. Surely we should not see it as a problem that they remind us they are there and REQUEST a small donation to the cause if we feel financially able to contribute, they have in my opinion given us quite and demanded nothing in return. It takes me 1 second to click on "Later", if I ever develop a problem with that then I think I need to assess my life and find out why I am in such a rush with everything!